News Releases

Appalachian Power announced that the water level of its ClaytorLake hydroelectric facility in PulaskiCounty will be lowered about five feet for cleanup and shoreline maintenance beginning Monday, Nov. 20. The lake will begin refilling to its normal level in about three weeks.

AEP and Appalachian Power employees will read aloud to students at 268 elementary schools Thursday, November 16, in observance of West Virginia’s statewide Read to Me Day. On that day, a volunteer corps of 170 employees will read aloud to more than 13,000 students, and will donate 536 books to school libraries.

Appalachian Power has made a filing with the Virginia State Corporation Commission (SCC) seeking approval for an increase to the fuel component of its customers’ bills.The proposal will result in an increase in the company’s annual Virginia revenue of approximately $38.7 million, or 4.0 percent.

Clare McCarty, a science teacher at St. Joseph Central Catholic High School in Huntington, recently attended the CSI: Climate Status Investigations Institute at the Keystone Center in Keystone, Colo. McCarty participated in the session Oct. 5-9 through a grant from Appalachian Power, a unit of American Electric Power.

Charleston, W.Va., October 31, 2006 – Appalachian Power is encouraging customers to contribute toward paying the electric heating bills for people in need, and the company is leading the effort by example. This year the company will contribute $105,000 toward the program.

CHARLESTON, W.Va., October 31, 2006 – Appalachian Power, a unit of American Electric Power, is bringing its electrical safety education efforts into the classroom through an innovative, interactive educational touring show that actively engages local school children in learning.

ROANOKE, Va., October 31, 2006 – Appalachian Power announces a change in hours of operation for its Smith Mountain Visitors’ Center. October 29 through March 26 the Visitors’ Center will be open Tuesday through Saturday 9 a.m. – 5 p.m. The facility’s hours of operation typically increase in the spring and summer.

Appalachian Power today announced a reward of up to $2,500 for information that results in the arrest and conviction of individuals involved in vandalizing or stealing from the company’s electrical facilities.

W. Va. Route 62 will close Oct. 29 from New Haven to the Philip Sporn Plant while workers install conveyors across the road at Appalachian Power´s Mountaineer Plant. Traffic will be detoured via county roads 9 and 3 for about 12 hours beginning at dawn. Detour signs will be posted.

Appalachian Power recently implemented two new tools to help find and prosecute thieves who raid the company’s electrical facilities and put lives in jeopardy in pursuit of scrap metal.

In September the company implemented a reward program across Virginia, West Virginia and Tennessee, and in southern West Virginia Appalachian is partnering with Crime Stoppers, a regional tip line where callers can provide anonymous information about crimes. The Crime Stoppers telephone number is (304) 255-STOP (or 7867).

American Electric Power (NYSE: AEP), in an effort to continue moving its generation plans forward, today filed state environmental permit applications for clean-coal power plants in Ohio and West Virginia.
Separate applications were filed with the Ohio Environmental Protection Agency and the West Virginia Department of Environmental Protection for Integrated Gasification Combined Cycle, or IGCC, plants the company plans to build in Meigs County, Ohio, and Mason County, W.Va.

CHARLESTON, W.Va., September 26, 2006 – Appalachian Power, a unit of American Electric Power, is bringing its electrical safety education efforts into the classroom through an innovative, interactive educational touring show that actively engages local school children in learning.

With energy use on the rise, Appalachian Power, an American Electric Power (NYSE: AEP) operating unit, has introduced new, web-based home energy calculators to help customers determine how to save money on their electricity bills. The calculators determine the costs of heating and cooling a home and of operating common appliances, electronic devices and lighting, enabling customers to make informed choices to help reduce the amount of electricity they use in their homes, according to Dana Waldo, Appalachian Power president and COO.

After setting a new summer peak on Tuesday, Appalachian Power customers topped that peak in electricity usage Wednesday at 4 p.m. EST. The customer demand Wednesday for electricity was 6,401 megawatts (MW), up from the prior summer peak of 6,292 MW established the day before.

Appalachian Power customers set a new unofficial summer peak demand for electricity Tuesday (August 1) at 4:00 p.m. The customer demand Tuesday for electricity was 6,292 megawatts (MW), up from the prior summer peak of 6,285 MW established just last month on Wednesday, July 19.

The Public Service Commission (PSC) of West Virginia yesterday approved without change the settlement previously filed in Appalachian Power and Wheeling Power’s general rate case. The Commission order grants the companies a combined annual increase in revenues of approximately $44 million or 5.5 percent, effective July 28.

CHARLESTON, W.Va., July 20, 2006 – At a commissioning ceremony in Charleston today, Appalachian Power dedicated a new 1.2-megawatt battery that is the first megawatt-class sodium sulfur (NAS) battery to be used in North America. This advanced energy storage technology will help ensure that customers in and around Charleston have a reliable supply of electricity this summer and in the future, and will allow Appalachian Power to defer an otherwise larger upgrade to help keep overall costs low.

Charleston, W.Va., July 19, 2006 – Appalachian Power customers set a new unofficial summer peak demand for electricity Monday, then topped that peak on Tuesday. Monday customer demand for electricity was 6,259 megawatts (MW), up from the prior summer peak of 5,953 MW established July 26, 2005. The new summer peak set Tuesday, July 18, in the hour ending at 4 p.m. was 6,280 MW.

CHARLESTON, W.Va., July 6, 2006 – With the rising price of scrap metal, Appalachian Power officials say they are seeing an increase in the theft of electrical equipment, especially aluminum and copper conductor.

Hundreds of runners will line the streets June 3 at the annual Appalachian Power Festival Run in Roanoke.
“For more than a decade, people have associated Appalachian Power with the Festival Run,” said Terry Hall, external affairs manager. “While we know more about making and delivering electricity than running, we do know a lot about community involvement and the run is another way we give back to our community.”

American Electric Power (NYSE: AEP) and its Appalachian Power operating unit have signed five multi-year wholesale power supply agreements with municipal and cooperative utilities in Virginia and West Virginia with a combined peak load of approximately 230 megawatts (MW).

Over a 22-hour period beginning this afternoon, workers will pour and finish 4,300 cubic yards of concrete to form a new stack foundation for the John E. Amos Plant’s 1,300-megawatt Unit 3. The work is a major initial step toward completion of a more than $1 billion project to add flue gas desulfurization units, or scrubbers, to all three Amos Plant generating units.

Appalachian Power will lower the normal level of water in the reservoir at the Byllesby Hydro Plant on New River in Carroll County, Va., beginning May 21, 2006.The reservoir is expected to be returned to its normal level by October 15.

American Electric Power (NYSE:AEP) dedicated its $306 million Wyoming-Jacksons Ferry 765-kilovolt (kV) transmission project, the largest electric transmission infrastructure project currently underway in the United States, today at a ceremony attended by federal and state officials and other dignitaries. The new transmission line helps ensure an adequate supply of electricity can reach this region to meet growing energy demands. The line also enhances the overall reliability of the transmission grid.

Appalachian Power filed a request May 4 with the Virginia State Corporation Commission seeking approval for an increase of $198.5 million in customer rates.
The new rates will increase revenues in Virginia approximately 25 percent.

Appalachian Power and Wheeling Power, together with the Public Service Commission of West Virginia (PSCWV) Staff, the PSCWV Consumer Advocate Division and other intervening parties, today filed a settlement agreement in the companies’ rate case seeking the Commission’s approval.

The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) has issued an order approving Appalachian Power’s request for an amendment to part of the Shoreline Management Plan (SMP) for its Smith Mountain Pumped Storage Project in southwestern Virginia.

A large transformer destined for Appalachian Power’s John E. Amos Plant will pass through Huntington on Sunday, Feb. 26. The 160-ton piece of equipment will make its way through the city beginning around 9:00 a.m. on a dual-lane trailer that is 20-feet wide and 150-feet long.

Appalachian Power yesterday filed an application with the Public Service Commission of West Virginia seeking authority to construct a 600-megawatt Integrated Gasification Combined Cycle (IGCC) electric generating unit in West Virginia. The proposed power plant would be located next to the company’s Mountaineer Plant near New Haven in MasonCounty.

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